The weekly release of the Top Ten teams has illustrated the unbalancing effect home field advantage offers teams through the semifinals. We have also seen three different combinations of the No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 teams that would have an enormous potential effect on the playoffs. Depending on what the FCS committee ate for lunch that day, NDSU is 4, 3, or 1, SHSU is 1, 3, or 4 - and these moves in the Top 10 are enormous. They potentially could be the difference between NDSU playing on the road at SHSU, or SHSU travelling to Fargo. Home field advantage is exactly that - an enormous advantage.

So why not start thinking about having rotating sites to have neutral semifinal games, or perhaps, a three-site rotation for the national championship game? (Ex. Frisco, Chattanooga, and, say, Yankee Stadium.) While it will cost more money, it could make the semifinals a bowl-like atmosphere, and have the happy aftereffect of having the 1-4 seeds not be such a competitive advantage over each other.

Certainly the way things are now, having the No. 1 seed is a huge advantage of having the No. 4 seed. Neutral sites would eliminate that as a problem.